Another fantastic paper by my stellar former grad student
@laurengh.bsky.social in which we show that one of the reasons kids as young as age 4 trust Google is because it is familiar to them.
🚨 Out now in Child Development!
We asked 4- to 8-year-old children about getting answers from Google and a teacher. By age 6, children endorsed Google’s ability to answer correctly more often and believed that Google would also be better at answering questions about the world around them.
“I’ve seen Google before!”: Young children's intuitions about Google's capabilities
Abstract. Google Search is a popular tool for acquiring information online, but little is known about children's trust in search engines. Across two studie
